Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 2 - 13th July - 13 Jul 2022
λBy Otto Prutscher for the Wiener Werkstätte
λBy Otto Prutscher for the Wiener Werkstätte, an Austrian silver box and cover,
executed by Alfred Mayer,1908,
lobed rectangular form, spot-hammered decoration, the pull-off cover with an ivory finial, on four ivory bun feet, the underside with a collection label, height 14cm, width 10cm, approx. weight 9.5oz.
Ivory Act registration reference: BADP857C
Provenance:
A Private Collection.
Sotheby's London, Pioneering 20th Century Design: The Torsten Brohan Collection, 8 March 2005, lot 34.
The Estate of Gustav Klimt, Vienna.
Galerie be der Albertina, Vienna
Phillipe Denys, Brussels.
Exhibited:
This piece was exhibited Der Preis der Schonheit. Zum 100. Geburystag der Wiener Werkstätte, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna, 2003.
Literature: Silberwaren, Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, image catalogue of the Wiener Werkstätte, vol. 6, p.71, cat. no. S 1036;
Christian Brandstätter, Wonderful Wiener Werkstätte, Design in Vienna 1903-1932, Thames and Hudson, 2003, p. 271.